The Prizes

2026 Neustadt Jury

Ananda Devi to Headline 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

2024 Featured Writers, Artists, and Scholars

2025 NSK Finalists

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Jury Announced for the 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2025 NSK Jury

2024 – Ananda Devi

2023 Featured Writers, Artists, and Scholars

2024 Neustadt Finalists

2024 Neustadt Jury

2023 – Gene Luen Yang

Senegalese Writer Boubacar Boris Diop to Headline 2022 Neustadt Festival

2022 Featured Writers, Artists, and Scholars

2022 – Boubacar Boris Diop

2023 NSK Finalists

2023 NSK Jury

2021 – Cynthia Leitich Smith

Finalists for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2022 Neustadt Jury

2021 NSK Finalists

2021 NSK Jury

2020 – Ismail Kadare

Finalists for the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2020 Neustadt Jury

2019 – Margarita Engle

2018 – Edwidge Danticat

2019 NSK Finalists

2019 NSK Jury

Finalists for the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2018 Neustadt Prize Jury

2017 – Marilyn Nelson

2017 NSK Finalists

2016 – Dubravka Ugrešić

2015 – Meshack Asare

Finalists for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2016 Neustadt Prize Jury

2014 – Mia Couto

2015 NSK Finalists

2015 NSK Neustadt Prize Jury

2013 – Naomi Shihab Nye

2014 Neustadt Prize Jury

Nominees for the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2011 – Virginia Euwer Wolff

2009 – Vera B. Williams

2007 – Katherine Paterson

2005 – Brian Doyle

2003 – Mildred D. Taylor

About the Neustadt Prize

2012 – Rohinton Mistry

2010 – Duo Duo

2008 – Patricia Grace

2006 – Claribel Alegría

2004 – Adam Zagajewski

2002 – Álvaro Mutis

2000 – David Malouf

1998 – Nuruddin Farah

1996 – Assia Djebar

1994 – Kamau Brathwaite

1992 – João Cabral de Melo Neto

1990 – Tomas Tranströmer

1988 – Raja Rao

1986 – Max Frisch

1984 – Paavo Haavikko

1982 – Octavio Paz

1980 – Josef Škvorecký

1978 – Czesław Miłosz

1976 – Elizabeth Bishop

1974 – Francis Ponge

1972 – Gabriel García Márquez

1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti

About the NSK Neustadt Prize